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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OUG_center-city-united-methodist-church_Goldthwaite-TX.html
In the early 1870s, shortly after the founding of Center City (first known as Hughes Store), a circuit riding preacher ministered in the area. Charter members officially formed a Methodist church in 1878. Members first met in the community's Mason…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OUF_center-city-baptist-church_Goldthwaite-TX.html
In 1875, Reverend Noah Turner Byars, a former blacksmith who served with Sam Houston during the Texas Revolution, founded this church and served as interim minister. Rev. Byars ordained David Isaac Haralson, the first permanent pastor. Byars also …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OTW_center-city-cemetery_Goldthwaite-TX.html
The Center City Cemetery began with the burials in 1874 of Julia M. Bishop and M.E. Hughes, the adult and infant daughters of W.C. and Caroline Hughes, early settlers of this area. Judge L.E. Patterson purchased 2.5 acres containing the Hughes bur…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OTV_center-city-community_Goldthwaite-TX.html
Settled in 1854 by the families of William Jenkins and David Morris (1811-89), this community was called "Hughes Store" after W.C. Hughes and his wife opened a store here in the 1870s. They platted a townsite in 1876, hoping to attract t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ORL_goldthwaite-memorial-cemetery_Goldthwaite-TX.html
In 1888, three local men bought land for use as a cemetery; the first burial was that of Houston Roberts. The Odd Fellows Lodge bought the grounds in 1894, adding land over the years. Watson Whittaker was killed during an 1898 train robbery and ma…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ORK_the-goldthwaite-eagle_Goldthwaite-TX.html
In 1885 William H. Thompson (1842-1896) started a weekly newspaper, "The Mountaineer", which closed but was reestablished in 1894. He sold it in 1896 to R.M. Thompson, his nephew, who renamed it "The Goldthwaite Eagle". At that…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ORJ_dam-and-well_Goldthwaite-TX.html
When the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railroad reached this area in 1885, company officials platted the town of Goldthwaite and built a reservoir to supply water for steam locomotives. A 25-foot-high dam near this site stored water from several sprin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ORI_mills-county-jail_Goldthwaite-TX.html
First structure built by newly organized county, before county seat was chosen.
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1965
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ORH_mills-county-state-bank_Goldthwaite-TX.html
Mills County experienced much growth from 1887 to 1917 after the establishment of the Gulf, Colorado, and Santa Fe Railway in the region. As Goldthwaite became the county seat and center, locals saw the need for a bank. On June 4, 1888, D.H. Trent…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ORF_mills-county-world-war-ii-and-korea-vietnam-memorial_Goldthwaite-TX.html
This Tablet is Placed Here
by the
Goldthwaite Garden Club
In Memory of Those of
Mills County
Who Paid the Supreme Sacrifice
in World War II
Baker, Wayne · Black, Norman O. · Carroll, O.B. · Clements, Bentley &m…